The most attractive property of (non-Abelian) anyons is their topological stability which makes them a highly desirable platform for fault tolerant quantum computing [1]}, [2]}.
However, an experimental implementation of this idea still evades effective realization [2]}, [4]}, [5]}.
Recent progress in synthesizing and observing non-Abelian gauge fields [6]} invites further research in this and related directions.
The conventional scheme of anyons appearing only as a result of an interaction between constituents of a system has been challenged and other ideas have also been put forward, in which anyons would appear as a result of coupling noninteracting (or weakly interacting) electrons to either a topologically nontrivial background, or a topologically nontrivial external perturbations. In this regard, anyons were proposed to be realized in a system of an artificially structured type-II superconducting film [7]}, [8]} adjacent to a 2D electron gas (2DEG) in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect (IQHE) [9]}, [10]}, in IQHE magnets [11]},
in topological defects in graphene [12]}, and by sandwiching a charged magnetic dipole between
two semi-infinite blocks of a high permeability metamaterial [13]}.
Recently, a theoretical model for synthetic Abelian anyons in a noninteracting system was proposed along these lines [14]}, in which specially tailored localized probes are brought into the IQHE setup and shown to have anyonic properties.
It should be pointed out that these synthetic Abelian anyons are not emergent quasiparticles (see Refs. [14]}, [16]}
and the commentary on Refs. [7]}, [8]} therein)
